“Hwuuu…”

 

The distant sound of someone sobbing echoed familiarly.

 

Was a banshee crying again?

 

The voices that sounded were quite a bit different from one, though.

 

“Hwuuuuu…”

 

“You can stop.”

 

Oh, was it just a dream?

 

A dark room slowly became clearer. I’d seen this room before.

 

As the darkness surrounding me gradually ebbed away, I saw a woman crying, standing in front of a balcony and rubbing the heel of her palm against her chest. A man was moving closer to her.

 

I couldn’t see their faces, but a strange sense of familiarity washed over me. The thought of having met this couple somewhere else passed me by.

 

Oh, that’s right. I had had a dream like this once before.

 

Yes, in another place, at another time, that woman had been smiling wickedly, and that man…

 

“Isn’t it time you stopped with the bad acting?”

 

The woman quit her wailing. “What if I don’t want to?”

 

“Ah, you’re really driving me crazy.”

 

“As expected, it doesn’t work on you,” I couldn’t see it, but I could feel the woman sneering. “You’re so annoying, you know that, right?”

 

The sadness ailing her vanished in an instant, something menacing gracing her features instead. I still couldn’t see what she looked like, but I felt the aggression dripping from her echoing and settling in my bones.

 

The man looming over her seemed to be very angry. “You turned the court banquet into a damn circus show. Have you no shame?”

 

“That girl was asking for it. What did you want me to do?”

 

“Did you fight with her just cause she asked you a question? Why don’t you pick a fight with the entire world then?”

 

“You weren’t even there, so what do you know? Right, it must’ve been your little sister that told you. Of course, she must have chosen her side again. She always does.”

 

The woman gave a bitter laugh, the air turning sullen.

 

“Watch your mouth.”

 

“Oh, don’t deny it, you know it’s true. And what if I don’t watch my mouth? Will you hit me? Don’t even joke around, because we both know you won’t.”

 

I was starting to worry a little for the woman.

 

She was deliberately targeting her opponent’s weak spots, his rage already reaching its breaking point. The harsh breaths he took was the only sound that could be heard in this dark and empty room.

 

“You’re such a bad f**king girl.”

 

“And you’re so handsome,” she swooned, ridicule but also honesty honeying her sweet voice.

 

“Consider it an honor then, if you’re willing to admit it.”

 

“Hah! An honor? You?”

 

“Anything you’re dissatisfied with? Tell me, since I’m your so-called husband.”

 

“I’m dissatisfied with your existence itself.”

 

your existence, you

 

The mood was strange.

 

but they couldn’t take

 

other before that. Instead, it was the distance between them that was dwindling, something I couldn’t quite

 

were almost chest to

 

appearance you’re at least not dissatisfied with,

 

came out like that, it didn’t mean anything. There are a

 

here, then? Hurry up and go

 

“You’re a damn j*rk.”

 

right?” The man came closer, as if there was still space

 

participate

 

“Hell no!”

 

“Then I won’t either!”

 

swiftly, the woman raked her fingers through the man’s hair and dug her nails into the back of his neck, pulling him close to her. There was

 

man was twice her size, but he went

 

but wonder where I was, who these people were, and why I was here, as I took in the scene of

 

breaths and desperate kissing filled the dark chamber. The only source of light came from the moon raining down on the couple clutching each other tightly and hungrily devouring one

 

hopeless

 

eyes

 

this dream, after all. Someone from the outside

 

smiled at me—a

 

broke and smashed into pieces. The face I hadn’t been able to

 

The woman was me.

 

that’s you…

 

Then, that man is…

 

to check, to see, to make sense of it, but it was as if someone had turned me to stone. I couldn’t move.

 

plunged into darkness. The man and the woman vanished and I lost

 

***

 

shining right into my eyes had me twitching, trying to blink it

 

to me was the heavy feeling in my head. I tried to lift my hand, but it dropped down to the

 

I? Who got me here? What

 

memories as I slowly woke up, I turned my eyes to my right, the feeling of someone else’s arm underneath me

 

I wanted to cry.

 

to see him safe and lying next to me, looking like he hadn’t just gone through hell and back, but there were no words

 

him in, my eyes leaving no part of his

 

He looked miserable, though.

 

move my weak hand and run my fingers through his bangs, the movement taking everything out of me, but my want was greater than

 

almost a whisper in the soft breeze. “Why

 

It felt like it didn’t

 

life and everything I had done in this life, all of it flashed before my eyes,

 

a stranger in my own

 

and hoarse as well,

 

“What…?”

 

really been me. All I was,

 

knew very well, something that had revealed itself to me time

 

brother had had enough of my

 

always been like

 

“Always.”

 

his lips curled into a mean snarl. I knew it wasn’t me he was directing

 

in a situation where I’m

 

my numb finger, gently at first until I pressed

 

such a silly joke, Izek still kept on gazing at me with that same brokenhearted look in his

 

me fully,

 

burying my head in the

 

didn’t understand why my head felt

 

I

 

don’t look at me like that. Because it’s not your fault. It’s not

 

arrogant man, I

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